Fifty years of food transport.
Author(s) : FILOMENA B.
Type of article: Periodical article
Summary
The development of road and the decline of rail transport, in particular that for frozen food are reviewed and discussed. Improvements in warehousing and materials handling are still affected by dimensional problems of both packages and pallets. The change from frozen commodities to value added products and the rise of the price/club store in the 1980's are also mentioned. G.R.S.
Details
- Original title: Fifty years of food transport.
- Record ID : 1993-1732
- Languages: English
- Source: Frozen Food Rep. - n. 1
- Publication date: 1992/01
- Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.
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Indexing
- Themes: History of refrigeration
- Keywords: Road transport; Economy; Refrigerated transport; Rail transport; Frozen food; History; USA; Packaging
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- Author(s) : TOTH B.
- Date : 1983
- Languages : Hungarian
- Source: Hütöipar - vol. 29 - n. 4
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- Author(s) : GUILLERMIT J. P.
- Date : 1986
- Languages : French
- Source: Rev. gén. Froid - vol. 76 - n. 11
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- Author(s) : LACIRIGNOLA C., ABIS S., BLANC P., et al.
- Date : 2014
- Languages : French
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- Author(s) : BURGENER D. B.
- Date : 1985/11/17
- Languages : English
- Source: Technology advances in refrigerated storage and transport.
- Formats : PDF
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Intercontainer-Interfrigo. Rapport annuel 1996.
- Author(s) : Intercontain. Interfrigo
- Date : 1996
- Languages : French
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